Martin Luther King

Over the weekend, Biden said his message on King's birthday is "we choose democracy over autocracy."

He helped drive passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. And I’m remembering our job is to redeem the soul of America.” … But it’s not.” Americans, he said, ” have to choose a community over chaos. … These are the vital questions of our time and the reason why I’m here as your president. “He said, ‘Where do we go from here?’” Biden said from the pulpit. He said democracies can backslide, noting the collapse of the institutional structures of democracy in places such as Brazil.

Ebenezer Baptist ChurchAtlanta, Georgia 11:45 A.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: I've spoken before parliaments, kings, queens, leaders of the.

(Applause.) I don’t believe He brought me this far to leave me.” (Applause.) He did not bring me this far to leave me. (Applause.) And as I told folks at the time: She’s smarter than you are. I call that the “Irish of it.” (Laughter.) We’re never on top, always stepped on. (Applause.) And I watch how the other graduates pick on the Morehouse men. King led, stated it clearly and boldly, and it must be repeated again, now: to redeem the soul of America. (Laughter.) Managed all my campaigns. (Applause.) She led the movement that created the King holiday and so much more. (Laughter.) Actually, I have a bad reputation for speaking too long. I — (applause) — and let’s lay one thing to rest. Folks, to the King family, I know no matter how many years pass — it doesn’t matter how many years pass — those days of remembrance are difficult. (Laughter.) Not a joke.

This weekend, we are celebrating the great civil rights leader and our union brother. And we remember the lesson he always emphasized: The fight for civil ...

King spoke extensively about many issues: the oppression of Black people, the suffering of Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War and white poverty. In our time, Dr. But we must remember him as a labor leader Because he spoke the truth about racism in white America. During his time, he faced fierce and violent backlash. This weekend, we are celebrating the great civil rights leader and our union brother.

The Embrace” was unveiled on Friday in Boston, where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King met, and the abstract sculpture quickly earned both ...

and Coretta Scott King’s Boston connection](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/13/metro/history-behind-embrace-martin-luther-king-jr-coretta-scott-kings-boston-connection/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results) (The Boston Globe) [Martin Luther King Jr. [Is Boston ready to ‘Embrace’ a different story?](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/15/metro/is-boston-ready-embrace-different-story/?event=event12) (The Boston Globe) [The history behind ‘The Embrace’: Martin Luther King Jr. [met while studying](https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2021/01/15/martin-luther-king-coretta-scott-love-story/) in Boston, and Martin Luther King Jr. Monday marked the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights leaders Rev.

Many historical recollections of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life are told through a color-blind lens and omit the intense campaign that the FBI waged ...

Aside from the misattributed quotes, patronizing memes, and poor rationale for color-blind ideologies made in his name, some social scientists argue that the real misfortune of King’s legacy is that many of the White people who so frequently invoke his legacy in the name of peace, do so with a fundamental perversion of his message. By 1967, it was apparent that King continued to toil with the idea of the appropriateness of violent protests. Toward the end of that same year, King began to grapple with the frustration, pain, and anger that many younger Black civil rights leaders were feeling. Still, by the time he spoke in the fall of 1967, he recognized that it would no longer be practical to tell Black Americans to only protest peacefully, kindly, and respectfully. [speech at the American Psychology Association’s](https://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/09/answering-mlk) annual convention in Washington, DC, he now described violence almost as a necessary act — a position in direct contrast to his discussion of riots just a year earlier. [March on Washington](https://www.npr.org/2010/08/28/129470920/a-peoples-history-of-the-march-on-washington) in 1963 until his [assassination](https://www.npr.org/2018/04/04/598826351/despite-swirl-of-conspiracy-theories-investigators-say-the-mlk-case-is-closed) in 1968, the FBI methodically engaged in a relentless and concentrated campaign to discredit Dr. The FBI would receive intel that King was planning to meet in various hotels for business and personal meetings and enter the hotel before King arrived. Meanwhile, urban areas composed of mostly Black residents remained marginalized by the institutions that promised to uplift and protect them. King promoted patience and love and focused largely on charging people, he also understood the power of legislative changes to promote equity for Blacks and supported abolitionist movements. King has been depicted as a non-violent pastor and civil rights leader who only promoted patience and compassion for the perpetrators of racial prejudice and White supremacist culture as a solution to eradicate racial inequality. Although Withers did not start as an informant, after Withers became known for his pictures documenting the civil rights movement, the FBI quickly propositioned him to be an informant against King. The FBI attempted to destroy Dr.

US federal holiday honouring slain civil rights leader comes amid rising fears over hate crimes, curbs to voting access.

To move our country forward and defend our democracy, we need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and Freedom to Vote Act to ensure access to the ballot box for all Americans. The right to vote was a key part of the civil rights movement and Dr. Similar legislation now faces an uphill battle in the US House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a majority. [restricting access to voting](/news/2022/10/24/qa-ahead-of-us-midterms-advocate-warns-of-voting-barriers) also has prompted calls for action in recent months, with advocates saying the measures most adversely affect racial minorities and marginalised communities. “But importantly, it’s also an occasion on which it is remembered what work still needs to be done.” It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” MLK

Coretta Scott King was a young woman living in Boston when she met Martin Luther King. GBH took a closer look at her life as part of the unveiling of a ...

In the fall of 1963, Coretta Scott King sang "A Balm In Gilead" at the funeral of four Black little girls murdered in the terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. EAGLESON: I was already 21, and she was older than I. She was a soprano. It was a small world, and La Verne Eagleson met and dated Martin Luther King Jr. MARTIN: Eagleson came to realize MLK's comment was not a prediction. And so she came to NEC, and she started out as a voice major. And she had to study. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled in a downtown park. She said, well, my name is - and it took her 15 minutes to say her name. She had to eat. And so she was very talented. MARTIN: But Coretta Scott came here psychologically wounded from the bigotry she experienced in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

The Reverend Bernice King spoke as the US remembered the murdered civil rights leader.

King’s life and legacy — in my view — shows the way forward.” … A prophetic word calls for an inconvenience because it challenges us to change our hearts, our minds and our behaviour,” Bernice King said. “We love to quote King in and around the holiday.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in the auditorium of Oslo University in Norway on December 10, 1964. AP.

It was only by the end of the year when most Americans (59%) favored the national holiday in a Harris poll. A near unanimous majority (89%) indicated he was a person they admired in 1999. Among that same group in 1966, King’s favorable rating was 41%. This included an 89% favorable rating among those aged 65 and older, the vast majority of whom were born in 1927 or later. Less than a majority (43%) said they were sad (38%) or angry (5%). Perhaps even more revealing is that a lot of White Americans thought King was doing more harm than good for the fight for civil rights. South Carolina was the last state to make Martin Luther King Jr. The move by the NFL had the intended effect. In the middle of 1964, when Congress was in the midst of passing many landmark civil rights laws, King’s favorable rating was just 44%. When Americans were asked which three Americans they had the least respect for in a 1964 Gallup poll, King came in second at 42%. In a 1966 Harris poll, 50% of White Americans indicated that he was hurting the civil rights effort. [Martin Luther King Jr](https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/us/martin-luther-king-jr-fast-facts/index.html).

The Rev. Bernice King said many people too often cheapen her father's legacy into a "comfortable and convenient King" instead of fully embracing his message ...

“His unshakable faith, powerful nonviolent activism and his vision for peace and justice in our world altered the course of history,” Rachel Talbot Ross said in a statement. King was not present at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the initial march known as “Bloody Sunday,” when Alabama state troopers attacked and beat marchers in March 1965. Other kits being assembled highlighted Temple University Hospital’s “Fighting Chance” program and included materials to enable immediate response to victims at the scene of gunfire, organizers said. “This is a time for choosing,” Biden said, repeating themes from a speech he delivered Sunday at Ebenezer at the invitation of Sen. “It is sometimes in those moments when we feel most tired, most despairing, that we are just about to break through,” Wu told attendees at a memorial breakfast. Some participants in the effort’s signature project, led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, worked to assemble gun safety kits for public distribution. Elsewhere in Washington, Martin Luther King III attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the national memorial to his father. “We love to quote King in and around the holiday. Wu, the first woman and person of color elected mayor of Boston, said education restores trust. … A prophetic word calls for an inconvenience because it challenges us to change our hearts, our minds and our behavior,” Bernice King said. King, the inconvenient King, puts some demands on us to change our ways.” King, gunned down in Memphis in 1968 as he advocated for better pay and working conditions for the city’s sanitation workers, would have celebrated his 94th birthday Sunday.

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We must commit to justice, healing and action—today and every day. - Implementing the Health in All Policies approach to make sure health equity outcomes are considered in all our policy decisions. Understanding that those exist here and in all areas of society is the only way we can address systemic racism, and in turn, the public health issues it creates. We must commit to We incorporated that mandate into our strategic vision, and racial equity and justice is now [one of our strategic initiatives](/healthy-places/public-health-data/strategic-plan/racial-justice). In 2020, our Board of Health unanimously passed

"I'm grateful, number one, that it talks about the love story," Martin Luther King III told CNN's Don Lemon.

Martin Luther King Jr. So I'm grateful, number one, that it talks about the love story." "Many monuments are done just around dad," he said. Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of civil rights leaders Dr. King and Coretta Scott King shared after he won the Nobel Peace Price in 1964. And in this day and age, when there's so much division, we need symbols that talk about bringing us together."

A crowd of more than 400 community members marched in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday morning, starting at Jordan Valley Ice Park and ...

King was also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Whayne is often credited as the individual who created the annual tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. In 2018, City Council passed a resolution in honor of Whayne for his decades of service and commitment to justice and equal rights. Sigma Theta chapter at Missouri State University, spoke about how the state of Springfield's community relates to King's vision for all of America. Whayne was the first Black council member in more than a century when he was elected in 2001. Traditionally, folks bundle up in stocking caps and gloves for the chilly Martin Luther King Jr.

Today we celebrate the birthday of the great Martin Luther King, Jr., whose life and career demonstrate the enduring importance of our constitutional ideals ...

Board of Education, states remained recalcitrant and only relented in the face of further organizing. [King ran into the same problem](https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=lawineq) at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. King was arrested multiple times for engaging in peaceful protests or staging sit ins, and he faced charges of disturbing the peace, marching without a permit, and even engaging in criminal libel. Even though King and other civil rights activists were the target of prosecution, their lawsuits often affirmatively shaped law for the better. On the one hand, judges could provide recourse after the democratic branches failed to protect the rights of Black Americans. And taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The New Orleans bus boycott, for example, was threatened by the fact that many of the city’s Black workers relied on buses for transportation to work. [Mountaintop Speech,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKWCxKq0i1k) where he spoke about having “been to the mountain top” and “seen the promised land,” he recalled having been stabbed during a book signing. If civil rights leaders wanted to maintain the boycott, they needed to find another way of getting the boycotters to their jobs. Laws of all kinds are easily weaponized against political minorities, whether racial, religious, or ideological—or in King’s case, a combination of the three. Today we celebrate the birthday of the great Martin Luther King, Jr., whose life and career demonstrate the enduring importance of our constitutional ideals and the centrality of the courts in making them a reality. In a particularly moving passage of his speech, King reflected on surviving this brush with death:

Our great union's core values are rooted in social justice and equality. From the start of our union, we have fought for social and economic equality for ...

Dr. Reuther and Dr. It is a day to that we must examine ourselves to see what part we play in fulfilling the dream. It is a day to reflect on how far we have come and how the dream is not yet achieved. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.” From the start of our union, we have fought for social and economic equality for all people, not just our members.

(BOSTON) — Nearly 60 years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed thousands on the Boston Common, city officials unveiled a sculpture commemorating the ...

The reason that any of us are here and have the opportunities we have today, no matter what our ethnicity is, is really a result of that work.” This is the spirit we must keep as we commemorate the 37th Martin Luther King Jr. The event featured statements from Martin Luther King III, his wife, Andrea Waters King, and their daughter, Yolanda Renee King, the only granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr. “This is a work that’s going to be in Boston Common, which has been around for 400 years. The bronze sculpture, which is 20 feet tall and 26 feet wide, is the largest monument in the U.S. That’s what I see in this beautiful monument,” said Martin Luther King III, son of Rev.

Americans paid tribute to civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. The holiday is marked each year on the Monday following King's birthday on Jan. 15.

[Freedom to Vote Act](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2747) and the [John R. The event was scheduled to include a performance by a gospel choir and interactive elements honouring King's legacy. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) King’s life, legacy, & impact.

We must continue to stand together against bigotry, division, & hate, while working towards a united New York where everyone can live & thrive, peacefully. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., at the age of 39. Tonight, we light New York State landmarks red, green, & black to honor & remember Dr. Many cities across the U.S. Thanks to the activism of King and other civil rights leaders, Lyndon B. King's son and daughter-in-law, Martin Luther King III and Andrea Waters King, paid tribute to the civil rights leader before attending the National Action Network's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Center and National Historical Site. President Joe Biden delivered the keynote speech. King would have turned 94 on Sunday.

I grew up under the assumption that Martin Luther King Jr. was beloved by every American. But data shows that our nation's love of him took time to grow.

And contrary to Newsweek’s reporting, the term was coined a century ago and is sadly still necessary in its original form. Though ending “wokeness” was not his mantra, it would certainly be the result of achieving his “dream.” It doesn’t matter how conservatives try to co-opt and convert the term into something beneficial for themselves. King would interpret a term like “anti-woke.” I would imagine he would equate it with “asleep.” [his intent to form and lead an “anti-woke” caucus](https://www.newsweek.com/jim-banks-plans-anti-woke-caucus-bolster-gops-war-wokeness-1773778), as reported by Newsweek. A better way to improve reading and education is not pushing more money at the problem. We should use this precious time to ACTUALLY teach our kids and NOT indoctrinate them into hating America and convincing them to change their sex.” In 2023 America, what about the man is not to love? It is difficult for me to fathom how a nation can have such an overwhelming love for what is commonly known about him and yet continues to struggle so much in adopting his teachings. I got my driver’s license that year, and a boom box to go with it for nights when I had my parents’ car. The banner reads ‘If It’s Good Enough For George, it’s Good Enough For Martin – National Holiday’, in reference to the national holiday honouring George Washington. The late Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” dominated the music, video and dance world.

The Dream is the first book about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech.

The Dream is the first book about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. If you are interested in his incredible speeches then you will also want to checkout “The dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation”. Some of these collections are online so all you need is a library card to access them and will not even need to stop by the library to enjoy. And we will have many choices that you can choose from the shelves at the library. The library has several collections that focus on the life and work of King. Carlsbad’s Martin Luther King Jr.

WASHINGTON, January 16, 2023 – “Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy continues to serve as a powerful source of inspiration and a catalyst for action ...

King’s legacy through the values of service, nutrition, equity, and opportunity and by beautifying the community that surrounds them. Today and every day, let us strive to answer Dr. Today, people of all backgrounds in our Nation carry forth his dream: to bring justice where there is injustice, freedom where there is oppression, peace where there is violence, and opportunity where there is poverty. By virtue of their volunteer service, fresh fruits and vegetables will make their way to families in need that would otherwise not have access to such foods. Department of Agriculture is concurrent with the history of America. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy continues to serve as a powerful source of inspiration and a catalyst for action for the American people.

In his absorbing profile of the writer Alex Haley (author of "Roots" and "The Autobiography of Malcolm X") in the New York Times Book Review a year ago,

KING CALLS U.S.“GREATEST PURVEYOR OF VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD” ](https://countercurrents.org/2022/01/if-usa-was-reminded-of-1967-headlines-king-calls-u-s-greatest-purveyor-of-violence-in-the-world/) [The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://countercurrents.org/2021/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king-jr/) [speaking at a meeting of the American Jewish Congress](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/address-delivered-national-biennial-convention-american-jewish-congress), King said: “My people were brought to America in chains. National spending priorities: King called for significant cuts to military spending in order to fund a comprehensive plan to create jobs, rebuild cities, improve schools and lift the poor out of destitution. “Of all the forms of inequality,” he said in 1966, “injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Today, he’d be part of the movement to protect women’s access to health care and reproductive freedom that are under attack by the U.S. Immigrant rights: King would be pleased by the ties between the civil rights and immigrant rights movements. In accepting the award, King said that “there is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts.” He noted how “at the turn of the century, she went into the slums and set up a birth-control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. [“Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence.”](https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm) King called America the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” and linked the struggle for social justice with the struggle against militarism. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, King wrote: “By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing, by allowing all these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.” King was proud of the civil rights movement’s success in winning the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act the following year. King would certainly be appalled by the recent upsurge of white supremacist and neo-fascist violence, catalyzed in part by Donald Trump. He urged the students to link up with “the people in the shacks and the hovels,” who, although “poor in property,” were “rich in spirit.” King had hoped that the bus boycott, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience would stir white southern moderates, led by his fellow clergy, to see the immorality of segregation and racism.

'The Embrace,' a massive six-metre-tall and 12-metre-wide statue, was unveiled in Boston, and the backlash online was almost instant.

[bringing people together](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/us/mlk-coretta-embrace-memorial-boston-mocked-reaj/index.html),” King III said. The monument is located in Boston Common, where King gave a speech about de facto segregation in housing and schools to a crowd of 22,000 on April 23, 1965. There, the names of It was created by the conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas and depicts just the arms of King and Scott King in an embrace. While some felt the statue was a lovely depiction of the married couple’s bond, others loudly claimed the structure looked phallic. [enveloped in love](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/13/metro/city-where-kings-met-embrace-memorializes-their-love-struggle/),” as per the Boston Globe.

Backlash ensued soon after a monument meant to honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King's legacy in Boston was unveiled.

“I think that’s a huge representation of bringing people together,” King said. Martin Luther King Jr.](https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/04/us/martin-luther-king-jr-cnnphotos/) and his wife [Coretta Scott King](https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/us/coretta-scott-king-fast-facts/index.html)’s legacy in Boston was unveiled. The statue was inspired by a photograph of King and Scott King which captured them hugging after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. “I think the artist did a great job. Some people described it as hideous or disrespectful while others posted memes and said it resembled a sex act. [a monument ](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/15/us/mlk-coretta-embrace-memorial-boston-trnd/index.html)meant to honor [Rev.

It depicts the hug Dr King shared with Coretta Scott King after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

"I think that's a huge representation of bringing people together," he said. "I think the artist did a great job. The son of civil rights leaders Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King has defended a new monument to honour his parents after the artwork faced mounting criticism and mockery.